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I'm trying to plan out my display board for next year's OFCC.  My idea is to have an army of Genestealer Cultists and Brood Brothers from the Elysians.  I want to build an airstrip and am at a loss for ideas of where to get started on the terrain parts. 

 

Does anyone have suggestions for terrain pieces that would fit this theme?

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23 hours ago, Chikin said:

I'm trying to plan out my display board for next year's OFCC.  My idea is to have an army of Genestealer Cultists and Brood Brothers from the Elysians.  I want to build an airstrip and am at a loss for ideas of where to get started on the terrain parts. 

 

Does anyone have suggestions for terrain pieces that would fit this theme?

I think the 40k setting is mostly VTOL, at least on the imperium side. 

GW did make https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Skyshield-Landing-Pad?_requestid=3974200 

While FW made https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Imperialis-Landing-Pad and https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Realm-of-Battle-Space-Marine-Castellum-Stronghold 

I would imagine an imperium "airstrip" to consist of multiple landing pads like the above, then maybe a central control tower. You could scratch build any of the above, but they are good reference points.

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2 hours ago, paxmiles said:

I think the 40k setting is mostly VTOL, at least on the imperium side.

A bunch of the FW Flyers aren't VTOL, as far as I can tell. The Xiphon, Thunderbolt, Marauder, Lightning, and Avenger all look like they need a proper runway, and I know I've seen references to at least some of them having airfields with runways. I think they just don't make Terrain for them because it would be like thirty feet long.

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Does it need to be a strip necessarily? There are several great looking landing pad terrain kits. If it is a strip I think it would be more interesting if it were raised somehow... maybe one of those carrier slingshots? You definitely need a tower and some checkerboard radio shelters. Aircraft hangar or elevator? Fly into a waterfall batman style?

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55 minutes ago, Brick Bungalow said:

 

Does it need to be a strip necessarily? There are several great looking landing pad terrain kits. If it is a strip I think it would be more interesting if it were raised somehow... maybe one of those carrier slingshots? You definitely need a tower and some checkerboard radio shelters. Aircraft hangar or elevator? Fly into a waterfall batman style?

That’s a damn cool idea.  Have an edge of the board with a mountain / waterfall that is open and you can see an airstrip lit up in there.  Outside of the mountain is a single landing pad with a tower, surrounded by jungle.  The cultists are in the jungle and the base.

 

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On 9/19/2018 at 6:40 PM, Chikin said:

 

That’s a damn cool idea.  Have an edge of the board with a mountain / waterfall that is open and you can see an airstrip lit up in there.  Outside of the mountain is a single landing pad with a tower, surrounded by jungle.  The cultists are in the jungle and the base.

 

Scale is all wrong, but this idea reminds me of a toy I used to own: https://picclick.com/1992-Galoob-Micro-Machines-Battle-Zones-Secret-Summit-153171558137.html 

On 10/3/2018 at 8:59 AM, Chikin said:

That looks pretty good for the full 6x4 table, but they don't have a 2x2 that I want to use for a display board.

Not sure you'll be able to fit an airstrip on a 2'x2' unless it's little more than a helipad. Perhaps only make a partial airstrip for the display board, and then just leave the remainder implied.

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I plan to do something like that toy.  

Where one side of the board is a mountain with an opening.  I’m not sure yet if it’s going to be doors or a waterfall that is split to show an airstrip that is implied going further into the mountain.

Outside the mountain is going to be a couple of sentry guns and a sky shield landing pad.

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